Kazakh central bank misspells ‘bank’ on money

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Updated: 10:03 a.m. ET Oct 18, 2006

ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word “bank” on its new notes, officials said Wednesday.

The bank plans to put the misprinted notes — worth 2,000 tenge ($15) and 5,000-tenge — into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling.

The move has drawn the ire of the Central Asian state’s politicians who urged the bank to abandon the notes altogether.

“The mistake ... is not just a spelling problem — it has political undertones,” a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.

“We urge you to tell the National Bank not to put out the notes with a mistake in the Kazakh language.”

Language is a contentious issue in Kazakhstan.

Kazakhs were encouraged to speak Russian, which is written in Cyrillic script, during Soviet times but since independence in 1991, the country has seen the Kazakh language as a national symbol.

The Kazakh word for bank is the Cyrillic form of “bank.” On the new note, the word was written with an alternate Kazakh form of the letter K, which has a slightly different pronunciation.

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[Mirorgate 0]

Must have used M$ word to spell check

[Marc and Olga 0]

Банк

How hard is that people?

Though, now I am curious what this othe k looks likes and sounds like! Darn my curiousness!

Google is my friend, so is Wiki!

The Arabic alphabet was traditionally used to write Kazakh before the introduction of the first Latin-based scripts in 1927, and is used in China. The letters چ، پ، ڭ، گ، ۆ are used to represent sounds not found in the Arabic language.

Қ қ ق Q q Qaf [q]

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